So
I don’t do Top Ten Tuesday every week, mostly because I am so incredibly rubbish
at keeping to any kind of posting schedule ever because I just suck, so it
always gets to Thursday and I realise it was a really good theme this week and I
kick myself.

Not actually, because ouch, but you know, metaphorically.

Anyway, their theme
this week is a summer freebie which is nothing if not fortuitous because last
night I was messaging with The Gals (which is the unique and very inspired name
me and two of my friends have for each other) last night about our forthcoming
weekend away in the sun (HURRY UP JULY) and my pal Hol asked me for holiday
book recs. Which, OH HELLO LET ME THROW THESE BOOKS IN YOUR FACE.

Metaphorically
again, this girl is one of my faves; I would NEVER actually throw a book in her
face.

“Kaz leaned back. "What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?""Knife to the throat?" asked Inej."Gun to the back?" said Jesper."Poison in his cup?" suggested Nina."You're all horrible," said Matthias.”

Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo

Pals. We need to talk. We need to talk about this book I
read which is all mystery and magic and heists and intense interesting
characters and which I think pretty much the rest of the book blogging world
has already read but you know me, I relish being late to the party. Sit down
with me, grab a coffee and some kind of snack and let’s talk about Six of Crows.

I mean probably you already know what it’s about but just in
case you do not, IT IS A KIND OF MAGICAL HUSTLE.

When We Collided - Emery Lord

When
We Collided is one of those everywhere
books, you know, in that, it’s been all over bookstagram (which makes sense
because holy pretty cover, Batman) and all over Twitter and mostly it gets All
The Glowing Reviews and I was super excited to read it. & if you’ve been
sneaking into my house and studying my bookcase – which is a completely weird
thought and one that may give me nightmares because I am nothing if not a
sensitive soul – then you might be thinking ‘huh, she can’t have been that excited; she’s had that damn book
for ages.’

How To Stop Tme - Matt Haig

Ok, so fair warning because I’m nice like that: I’m about to
go CAPSLOCKING italicising fangirling
CRAZY. If that’s not your thing, if you want me to sit here and sedately say ‘oh
yas, that book was rather good’ well, now be the time to close your browser and
go and do something else and I promise I won’t be offended because you see, the
thing is, is that I just read Matt Haig’s How
To Stop Time and I don’t know what to do really, other than keysmash a
little bit about the beauty that is this book.

Yellow Crocus

So I’ve joined a book club. I know, exciting right? No, but
it actually is because you do not
even know how long I have wanted to be a member of a book club so I’m super
delighted. It’s a small club, and it’s ladies I know already which is A Good
Thing because oh my goodness am I shy, and I think it’s going to be lovely.

Except that.

And I have to
be super comfortable with you before I’ll offer up my own opinion, speshly if
my own opinion is not the same as yours and I’ve read the book club book and….I
didn’t love it. I didn’t love it and I’ve been super scared the other ladies
did and I didn’t want to show up for the first time and be all ‘yeah, I’m not
sure…’

My friend Ang told me on holiday in March that I needed to
be less of a mouse and more of a gerbil, and maybe this is a time to practise
that but I feared that everybody will sing this books praises and I would be
just sat there and smiling and nodding and agreeing when inside I was thinking but what about that one part where –
which I am aware is not the point of a book club at all and that I should
always put on my big girl pants and OWN MY OPINIONS.

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A bookworm in her mid-30's who likes sunshine and snow covered mountains and the cold side of the pillow and being the little spoon. Writes book reviews more akin to coffee with friends than any intellectual book club. Binge watcher who has been known to use holiday days to stay in her pyjamas under a blanket watching Ugly Betty and who thinks nothing will ever be as sad as Billy on Ally McBeal although some things come close. Does not believe in the term guilty pleasures - you do you, you gorgeous creature. A happy, sleepy, over-thinker.

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